Question
Danish explorer Peter Freuchen produced a severely-abridged version of this novel that cuts it down to what he called “a man’s book.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this novel whose first German translation was so terrible that it cut the sentence “Call me Ishmael.”
ANSWER: Moby-Dick [or Moby-Dick; or, the Whale]
[10h] To preface their translation of Moby-Dick, this author wrote a novella in which Melville gains inspiration from an Irish revolutionary named Adelina White. This author depicted the Provençal countryside in novels like Colline.
ANSWER: Jean Giono
[10m] This author made a Flemish translation of Moby-Dick during a relatively quiet period in 1945. This deconstructionist and Nazi collaborator wrote “The Resistance to Theory” and the book Blindness and Insight.
ANSWER: Paul de Man [or Paul Adolph Michel Deman]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago C | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Rutgers A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Brown A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A | Florida A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Harvard A | Northwestern A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas A | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia A | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |